This is by far one of the best rants Angry in the Great White North has ever done, and he's done a lot!

Angus, a New Democrat MP who represents a northern Ontario riding, ran afoul of the Roman Catholic church over his support for the federal government's controversial same-sex marriage bill.

"It's quite disturbing," said Angus, pointing to what he called "the rising militancy of language within the church. I went to Ottawa feeling that I would be speaking as someone rooted in a faith tradition and rooted in a justice tradition.

News flash to Angus and Symmonds: we are all defined by our choices. You know that because you claim to be Catholics. You understand that in Catholic teaching, as opposed to Calvinism, for example, the choices you make are the basis on which you will be judged.

Calvinism teaches predeterminism, which says that the decision of who will be saved and who will not has already been made, and there is no way a mote like you or I can alter the decision of an all-powerful and all-knowing God with our meagre attempts at good living. That dogma is very liberating, since the most venal sinner will be saved by God's infinite grace.

The Catholic Church has always taught that salvation can be granted through God's grace and earned by good acts. That is one of the fundamental theological differences between the Catholic Church and most Protestant Churches. The Catholic Church thus has a responsibility to understand what constitutes good and bad choices, and to guide the flock. Those who chose poorly chose to be separate from the Church.

Angus and Symmonds have to know all this, and yet they think the rules are different for them. Narcissism, plain and simple.

Go read the rest. The comments are great, too.